AGNES: Her opponent retired and she will face either Petra Martic or Yanina Wickmayer

PARIS: Eighth-seeded Elena Vesnina of Russia and Agnes Szavay of Hungary both reached the second round of the Open GDF Suez tournament this morning.

The 34th-ranked Agnes was leading 6-3, 1-0 against Olga Govortsova when the Belarus player retired, and the 29th-ranked Elena advanced 6-1, 6-4 against Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania.

Elena broke Alexandra's serve four times before serving out the match at the indoor tournament on hard courts at Stade Pierre de Coubertin. She next plays either Tathiana Garbin of Italy or qualifier Ioana Raluca Olaru of Romania. Agnes is to play either wildcard Petra Martic of Croatia or third-seeded Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium.

Meanwhile in Pattaya, Germany's second seed Sabine Lisicki needed just 32 minutes to advance to the second round of the Pattaya Open yesterday when her opponent Akgul Amanmuradova from Uzbekistan retired injured. Sabine was leading 5-0 when the trainer was called to administer oncourt treatment to her Uzbek rival who was suffering from a stomach muscle injury.

But after dropping the next game Akgul conceded the match. Troubled Russian Anna Chakvetadze earned a welcome 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 victory over American Jill Craybas but was still unhappy with her form.

The Russian has struggled for some time to recover the form that once took her as high as five in the world. Now she is ranked 74 as her slump that began after the 2008 US Open has extended from 2009 into this season.

Last month she was beaten by Kimiko Date Krumm in the first round in Auckland, and she then failed even to survive the qualifying rounds in Hobart. At the Australian Open she fell to 12th-ranked Flavia Pennetta in the first round.

"I'm not satisfied with the way I played today. Lots of unforced errors," said Anna. "I just didn't feel the ball. I don't know what happened. I think I have to go and hit more balls today (yesterday) because it's really tough to win matches if you play like this.

"I came just a couple of days ago from Russia and it's a little tough for me, you know. But that's not an excuse. I have to play better if I want to win some matches."

Wimbledon junior champion Noppawan Lertcheewakarn of Thailand led South Africa's Chanelle Scheepers by a set and 4-1 but then fell 6-7 (9-11), 6-4, 6-4 in a battle that stretched to two hours 40 minutes.